Rob
I shot my Hog deer this year with my 416sw and realise now I was lucky to penetrate the head and body with a 410grn Woodleigh at 2800fps - much to fast, should have built a 416 whisper to get better penetration.


Rifle is unfinished, the barrel is cro/moly so has to be blued, will get iron sights as well.

I find this a suitable rabbit rifle as well as deer rifle, just seem to be hunting everything with it.

I shot only 1 deer in training for Namibia with the "small" .375 H&H. Used 300g RWS Kegelspitz bullets with excellent results. Most German or European hunters get mad about this because the fear for their precious meat. In fact the meat damage was not worse than the 308 180g Nosler Partition I�m using frequently.

Gee, after reading all the postings I don't feel so bad about shootin one doe this year, with my 450 3 1/4" nitro

Oh Yeah! you gotta love the big bores... I've used both .375 H&H and .416 Taylor on Blacktails. Only problem I had was one was quartering away and I tried to get it in behind the shoulder, hit the hip and opened it right up, was using .416 taylor with 400 grain Horn. Made a mess! Any and all others were nice clean kills just punched a hole in them and sucked the wind right out of their sails...they are heavy to be lugging around the hills though.

John